'Enforcing Sharia'

Malians walk past a billboard left by the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), an offshoot of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), on Jan. 30, 2013, reading :"Enforcing Sharia is the road to happiness, it is the road to paradise," in the northern city of Gao, a key Islamist...

Malians walk past a billboard left by the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), an offshoot of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), on Jan. 30, 2013, reading :"Enforcing Sharia is the road to happiness, it is the road to paradise," in the northern city of Gao, a key Islamist... (SIA KAMBOU/AFP/Getty Images)

Malians walk past a billboard left by the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), an offshoot of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), on Jan. 30, 2013, reading :"Enforcing Sharia is the road to happiness, it is the road to paradise," in the northern city of Gao, a key Islamist...